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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Greece on the 29th. [로이터=연합뉴스]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Korea for two days from 7 to 8 next month.
State Department spokesman Morgan Otaygus said on the 29th (local time) that Secretary Pompeo plans to visit Tokyo, Japan, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Seoul, Korea, on a schedule of five days and three nights from 4-8. next month.
Minister Pompeo said he plans to visit Tokyo on the 6th to attend a meeting of foreign ministers from the four ‘Quad’ countries with Japan, Australia and India, and discuss mutual interests with the Japanese counterpart, the State Department said.
Minister Pompeo plans to visit Ulaanbaatar on the 7th and then travel to Seoul to meet with senior South Korean officials on the 7th and 8th.
Minister Pompeo plans to thwart new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Japanese media recently reported.
Minister Pompeo is reported to be discussing cooperation with Quad’s foreign ministers for a ‘free and open Indo-Pacific strategy’ and a response to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
If Secretary Pompeo visits Korea immediately after the quadruple meeting, the level of pressure on participation in the anti-China coalition is expected to rise further. The United States has announced the idea of ’Quad Plus (4 countries + Korea, Vietnam, etc.)’, an Indo-Pacific collective security system in which Korea and Vietnam participate in the existing quad.
In particular, the possibility of pressure to join anti-China cables in high-tech fields such as 5G (5G) networks and semiconductors is raised. There may be warnings not to deviate from the security cooperation between Korea, the United States and Japan.
After Minister Pompeo’s visit, Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, is discussing a plan to visit Korea. Foreign Minister Wang may have visited Korea to pressure Korea-China cooperation and demand that Korea not side with the United States in the strategic competition between the United States and China.
The government maintains strategic ambiguity about the US-led ‘Quad Plus’ and the anti-China economic alliance, the Economic Prosperity Network (EPN), saying: “We have not received any specific proposals yet.”
Secretary Pompeo visited South Korea in June last year when US President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at Panmunjom. After visiting North Korea in October 2018, he visited South Korea. This is my third visit after taking office.
Washington = Correspondent Park Hyun-young [email protected]
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